This path-breaking Handbook analyses the foundations, social desirability, institutions and geography of innovation and entrepreneurship. Leading researchers use their outstanding expertise to investigate various aspects in the context of innovation and entrepreneurship such as growth, knowledge production and spillovers, technology transfer, the organization of the firm, industrial policy, financing, small firms and start-ups, and entrepreneurship education as well as the characteristics of the entrepreneur. There is much in this Handbook that will prove to be informative and stimulating, especially for academics and post-graduate students in economics and management. Those starting a PhD in innovation or entrepreneurship will find this book essential reading.

这本开创性的手册分析了创新和创业的基础、社会期望、制度和地理位置。领先的研究人员利用其卓越的专业知识调查创新和创业的各个方面，如增长、知识生产和溢出、技术转让、企业组织、产业政策、融资、小企业和初创企业，创业教育以及创业者的特点。这本手册中有许多内容将被证明是有益的和有启发性的，特别是对于经济学和管理学的学者和研究生。刚开始攻读创新或创业博士学位的人会发现这本书是必不可少的阅读材料。